Shocking WHO Sex Abuses
WHO’s failures in Congo are epic: it did not train workers to avoid sexual exploitation; of 80 cases of sexual abuse reported in an independent investigation, 21 involved WHO employees. Women reported being exploited with bribes or threats of retaliation, plied with alcohol, or paid for sex. Nine victims reported being raped, including a 13-year-old girl. Twenty-two women were impregnated and delivered their babies; others were forced by their abusers to abort. Perpetrators refused to use protection during intercourse, infecting women and spreading STDs. (So much for the agency’s disease prevention response!)
Investigations have shown that WHO staff were well aware of these allegations by early May 2019, but did nothing to initiate an investigation until October 2020—after an article was published exposing the abuse. Similar abuses were reported during the WHO-directed response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak between 2014 and 2016, yet by 2020 Ghebreyesus had done nothing.
Shielding Alleged Rapists Instead of Victims
The independent commission that established the latest abuses did not investigate higher-level involvement by WHO leadership. WHO promises of “internal investigations” have yielded nothing. Four people were fired, but some of the worst offenders (especially Doctor Boubacar Diallo, who “often bragged about his connections to … Tedros”) simply deny their DNA-provable criminality with impunity. According to internal emails reported by the Associated Press:
Over 2018 and 2019, three Ebola experts, including two who worked for WHO at the time, told the AP they raised concerns about sex abuse in general, and Diallo in particular, with senior managers. But they said they were told that controlling the Ebola outbreak was more important, and two said Diallo was considered ‘untouchable’ because of his relationship with Tedros.
Two WHO officials with knowledge of the situation said the agency investigated complaints that Diallo acted unprofessionally, including an alleged sexual assault, and there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the charges. But investigators failed to interview any of the women involved or the whistleblowers who flagged the harassment claims, according to a senior WHO official who didn’t want to be identified for fear of losing his job.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/the_sexual_predators_of_the_who.html